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Tri-City Health Center: Financing New Health Care Access for Low-Income Residents
By Katherine Groves & Daniel Ramirez, Loan Originations Team When Tri-City Health Center (TCHC) opened in Fremont, CA in 1970, it was one of just a handful of clinics serving low-income, minority women from Fremont and the neighboring Alameda county...
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Volunteering and Connection in our Communities
At Capital Impact, we’re committed to building stronger communities. While we do this primarily through financing, we also recognize the importance of giving back to the communities in which we live and work. Capital Impact staff celebrate our commitment to...
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Expanding and Diversifying our Capital Base
By Carolyn Bauer, Chief Risk Officer Driven by another year of strong lending, Capital Impact ended 2015 with a solid financial position. The organization’s overall portfolio increased by $22 million or 11 percent. This growth was matched with continued strong...
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Financing that Supports Connections
By Scott Sporte, Chief Lending Officer At Capital Impact Partners we put money to work, focusing our efforts on the best ways to use dollars to achieve powerful outcomes. Our lending work at Capital Impact Partners in 2015 increased more...
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Introducing our 2020 Vision
By Ellis Carr, President & CEO As Capital Impact’s new CEO, I am incredibly excited to take this opportunity to both look back at 2015 and to expound on our new five-year vision to 2020. Over the past year, we continued to...
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A Fond Farewell
By Terry Simonette, outgoing President & CEO As I think about my 32 years with Capital Impact Partners, I am overwhelmed when I consider the thousands of stakeholders that have made contributions to our work of helping people and communities...
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Opening Up Possibilities in Co-op Innovation
By Clair A. McDevitt, writer Since Benjamin Franklin launched the first mutual fire insurance company in 1752, the cooperative sector has seen waves of success in the United States. Dairy and cheese coops were first organized in the early 1800s,...
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Putting Down Roots For A Better Future
By Alison Powers, Program Officer More than 10,000 low-and-moderate income homeowners are sleeping better at night thanks to our partner ROC USA. Instead of worrying about rent increases or land sales that might force them to move, residents of manufactured-home...
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What Does it Mean to Age Strong?
By Candace Baldwin, Director of Strategy, Aging in Community Making a community a great place to live and work while also supporting the needs of low-income and vulnerable older adults is difficult. It takes patience, planning, and a group effort....
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